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CRESCENT THRUSH, 



(Turdus arcuatus.) 



^M.riifo-fuscus, corpore subtus superciliis lorisque albisj cervice 

 ' jugulo pectoreque rubentihis, gents lunulaque sub gula nigris. 

 Red-brown Thrush, with the body beneath, supercilia, and lores, 



white ; top of the neck, jugulum, and breast, reddish ; cheeks 



and crescent beneath the throat black. 

 Turdus arcuatus. Gmel. S^/st. Nat» 1. 829. — Lath, hid, Orn, 1. 



337. 36. 



Crescent Thrush. Lath. Gen, Syn. 3. 37, 34. 



This Thrush is in length eleven inches : its beak 

 is lead-coloured, with a pale tip : supercilia white : 

 cheeks black, passing in a crescent on the fore- 

 part of the neck ; on the middle of the black 

 behind the eye a patch of loose white feathers : 

 upper part of the body reddish brown : chin and 

 lores white : hind parts of the neck and breast 

 reddish : abdomen reddish white : vent pure white : 

 tail rounded at the end and long, with a black 

 bar near the tip, and the tips white : legs lead co- 

 loured : claws white. Inhabits China. 



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